Not long ago, George Huber and Robert Brown wrote in a special issue of Energy Technology of their desire to “highlight recent advances in pyrolysis technologies and to discuss the critical research needs of this field. We think innovations in pyrolysis will advance more rapidly with improved understanding of the fundamental chemical, physical, and catalytic processes underlying pyrolysis technology.”

We agree, and would add also the importance of seeing the market forces and opportunities therein for technology that indeed develop.

To this end, we invited noted biofuels experts Lorenz Bauer and Terry Mazanec to lead a recent March Madness webinar on the pyrolysis field. Part one – Lorenz Bauer’s slides, are here. And here in Part II, we present Terry Mazanec’s perspective on the field.